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You will also need to know if your state and city switched to digital.
If not then it should work fine, but if they did you will need a new scanner because you have an analog scanner. There is a big push to switch over to digital radios in police, firefighter, military because it's more secure to use.

In recent years public service and all land mobile has moved to narrow band FM from the old 12.5khz or 5khz bandwidth FM to new 2.5 and 1.25 khz format.
The older scanners will play these transmissions with much lower volume and there is nothing that can be done to the scanner to solve this.
You can buy an amplified speaker and use that to further boost the audio or just replace the scanner with a new scanner built by Uniden or GRE (General Research Electronics) who make almost every scanner on the market. Both are good units.

Hello, the good news, though, is that all Uniden/Bearcat scanners in
the 14X series are nearly identical in features and operation, so you
can follow the link below to download/print the manual for the BC148XLT:

[MENU] Program System F Select a conventional system F Edit Group F Select a channel group F Edit Channel F Select the channel F Edit Frequency FUse the [0] to [9] and [.No] keys to enter or modify a frequency. When you pressthe first place key, the cursor automatically moves one character to the right. Youcan also , clockwise or counter-clockwise to highlight any digit.

If this does not help, and you need the owners manual, here is a link to the pdf format manual on Uniden: